William Syndrome

william syndrome is a rare ganetic disorder, there is a 1/25 000 of a chance of a child being born with william syndrome AKA  ws.  there is a  ws foundation that is known as WSF. most young children with William syndrome have similar facial features witch include: a small upturned nose  unusual upper lip length wide mouth full lips small chin and puffiness around the eyes. blue and green eyed children with ws can have a prominent star burst pattern

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who killed the electric car ?

Why would they stop making electric cars when it seems to be everything that we need?

With the new type of powered car came a lot of excitement, from eco friendly and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             average people alone, considering that this car, purely runs on electricity is quieter                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               and a lot faster than the patrol car, the only people that were not happy were the oil                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           and petrol company’s. They were not happy because they are selfish and greedy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 people, these cars could help save the planet and all they care about is money.

by Jamie Ann Richardson

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technology and how its evolved-for teenagers

scientists have acctually made a phone that is thin as paper and this phone has the incredible ability to change its self into its souroundings for eg. if you place the phone infront of a window with water on it that is what the phone will become pretty inpresive but whas even more inpresive is when you consider how much the technology has leaped since the 1950′s  and 1970′s  G

Teenagers prior to WWII were exspected to take life seriously males were exspected to join the millitary or go and get a full time job in oder to help bring some money in for his family.

teens in the 1970′s lived in a laid back healthy lifestyle that had no worry about drugs and what theyu were doing to our boddies or what alcahol can doit was a very easy way of life compaired to life as a teenager today. teens have video games moblie phones and there used to be only a handful of chanels on the tv thats if you were lucky enought to own one and now ther are hundrends on foxtel and cabel.

my opinion on this topic is that technology will eventually bring mankind down but i dont no when.

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my holiday to coffs harbour

I was so excited about this holiday because it’s during school but at the same time I really wanted to do my rich task at school. We are here for 2 weeks because my dad’s birthday is on the 17 of March which is also St. Patrick’s Day. It took ages to get Boambee resort but we did get there, on the way we stopped at pub for lunch. Liam (my brother) had pizza but like always he had 3 bit’s and said he wasn’t hungry, dad had beef burger but he wasn’t very impressed with it he said that it was too greasy mum and me both had a Caesar salad which I thought was quiet nice if there was less cheese but mum didn’t think it was very tasty. Once we had go to Coles to grab a few essentials we to Boambee I was hoping that we would have an upstairs suite but we didn’t we were in room 1405. I liked this room more than previous because it was closest to the reserve. The reserve is a place that is on a river it has barbeques a small kiosk and it is very beautiful but the river is connected to the ocean which has big waves. I unpacked my things and was just itching to do something but mum and dad very tired from the drive which is understandable I went for a walk around to kill sometime before tea I had gone swimming with Liam well he went into the spa and I swam laps. After dinner my brother fell asleep on the couch and when he woke up we told him that he slept for 2 weeks and that we were leaving in the morning and he got really angry because he thought that we were telling the truth ha-ha it was so funny. We had bunk beds but there were 2 sets if bunk beds so we can sleep on top or bottom without arguments.

 DAY 2: Liam woke me up at 7:00 which is quiet early for me but after 40 minutes of lying in bed I thought I’d make every one breakfast so I got out the bacon and bread (that’s all we had) and cooked it up.  After breakfast mum asked if dad wanted to have a look down at the jetty markets so we went for a drive to have a look it turned out to be great I bought a new school bag some skinnies that were green a really lovely watch and we brought my cousins birthday presents. then that after noon my mum’s friend  Lisa who she has known for 25 years and her husband Brendan and their two boys Jacob  10  Jordan 8 came over and I took the boys swimming and then after we got changed I took them for a look around Boambee.     

DAY 3: I didn’t get up till about 9:30 10 o’clock but when I didn’t mum told me that Liam and dad were going for a drive and she wanted to know if I would like to go out for lunch but I had quite a sore foot and so we decided to go to the little cafe restaurant in the resort I had a lovely Caesar salad and mum had salt and pepper squid which she said was really nice. After lunch when we got home there was a movie on that we watched and then Liam and dad got back and so we all went  for a drive to the shops.

DAY 4: we went for a drive to a place called south west rocks and it was a really long drive but it was defiantly worth it because once we go there it was the best day first we sat down and looked at the water then I walked down the side of the mountain on the rocks then dad and Liam came down but mum stayed up because she had a dress on and she didn’t want to get dirty. after looking around the shops for ½ hour we decided to have lunch at a restaurant called sea breeze it was a lovely spot looking right out on the water Liam had pizza again for lunch and mum and dad had like burgers while I had JUNGLE CURRY it was so yummy it was quiet hot for my taste but the flavour of the prawns with the curry and rice oh it was so good. After lunch we walked down to the beach and went for a swim like always it was me and dad by 5 minutes in. But it was great dad was swimming out deep were I like to swim because the waves don’t break there they break further in so it is safe out there after our swim mum had to take Liam to the chemist because he had a cold sore me and dad waited by the car and then when they got back we drove home. The resort has activities throughout the weeks so there are things to do there was a trivia night on so when we got home from south west rocks we went up to the trivia it was really quiet hard the questions from previously were a lot easier but even with the questions being harder we beat the other teams but there are 3 rounds and that was number 1 so hopefully we keep up the luck and win so prizes.

 

DAY 5:  today we went to sawtell beach which is just over the lookout from Boambee reserve at first we went there so mum and dad could take part in a tai-chi class, and me and Liam would have just sat and had a drink but there wasn’t the beginners class on when we got there so we got our swimmers on and headed down to the surf. There were lifeguards at the beach but it looked really ruff so we decided to walk up to the rocks at the other end of the beach there we the coolest rocks that were like smooth and different colours and dad walked up on the big island rock mum found this reallllllllllyyyyyyyy deep puddle that I swam in for ages until mum and dad came back from their little walk up the lookout. Then we had lunch at the cafe I had salt and pepper squid Liam had a ham and cheese croissant dad had a surf club burger and mum had a massive fish burger all the meals were lovely.

DAY 6: we were suppose to go the Belign today but it was raining so we decided not to go but we had to go to the shops and get some food so that’s what we did  for most of the morning we got back and the rain had cleared but it was really cold  but mum had already booked us in for the pizza night down at the reserve restaurant it was so yummy I had a pumpkin fetta tomato and herb pizza with mum and Liam had pineapple and cheese with ham , but the reason that they were so nice was because they were cooked in a stone oven and we also won the trivia night YAAY!.

 

 DAY 7: Friday was another wet day and again we went to the shops but at least today it was different shops after a game of tennis we got ready and went to Lisa’s Jordan wanted me to help him with his fashion game so I did and then we had pizza for dinner after that Jordan was giving me his super special facial as he called it witch was really him just putter shampoo all over my face but I went along with he is only 8 after all.

 

DAY 8: today we went to Bellingen but we didn’t go to never never river because it was too cold so we drove around and looked through some lovely towns we also went to the old butter factory which was kind of silly because there was nothing to do with butter there but I guess it was the OLD butter factory after all. And tonight we went to a tavern with Lisa Brendan and the boys it was lovely and Brendan’ brother is the manager so we were treated better like I got desert for free and super fastJ. Jordan had to go to hospital earlierL because he tripped over a toy elephant and the tusks cut deep in to his leg he had to have 4 stiches so I had to make sure that he didn’t trip or fall because it was hard for him to walk properly but we were drawing and he made me this cute little napkin that said ciss ciss and friends and there was pictures of us on it  (that’s how he spelt kiss kiss and friends).

DAY 9: This morning mum and I went to the jetty markets again and it was good we got presents for a few people and she brought me this mad as dress/shirt that’s white black and neon pink. When we got home topaz came over and asked me to go in the pool and I did but not for very long because Lisa Brendan and the boys were coming over for lunch/dinner. I made Easter eggs with jordan and Jacob and when Jacob went for a swim  I took Jordan to the games room and we played on the racing car game a few times and then we did a shooting one but he was to short so I had lift him up so he could see. DAY 10: today we went to Nambucca heads it was so hilly there and mum parked really close to the edge of a mountain and I made her reverse because I was scared.

DAY 11: today we went to red rock it was really cool because I saw dolphins again that’s the 3rd beach I’ve been to that I’ve seen them. DAY 12: today was dad’s birthday and ne and mum brought him a NUFC wallet and towel he loved it. We went to Urunga as well. The last time we came here we went to a restaurant on the river and we hired a boat and had lunch afterwards and we all loved it the last time and so we thought it might be a good idea to have a look and see if it is as good as we remember and it was it was beautiful.                                                     

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once you start its hard to stop – smoking

Smoking is a hard habit to break, because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. 

Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become used to the nicotine in cigarettes. So much so that they need to have more to get there kick.

People starts smoking for various reasons, some think it looks cool, so start because either family or friends smoke.  Statistics show that 9 out of10 start before they are 18 yo. Most adults that started smoking in their teen’s years never expected to become addicted. That is why people say it is so much easier to not start smoking at all.

  • Bad breath
  • Yellow teeth
  • Cancers
  • Smelly clothes
  • More colds and coughs
  • Difficulty keeping up in sports
  • Empty wallet – cigarettes and tobacco products are very expensive

These are all reasons not to start smoking.

Why are cigarette smoking bad for me?

Everyone knows that smoking can cause cancer when older, but did you know that it also has bad effects on your body right now? A cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals, many of which are poisonous.

  •       Nicotine is a deadly poison
  •       Arsenic used in rat poison
  •       Methane a component of rocket fuel
  •       Ammonia found in floor cleaners
  •       Cadmium used in batteries
  •       Carbon monoxide part of car exhaust
  •       Formaldehyde used to preserver body tissue
  •       Butane lighter fluid
  •       Hydrogen cyanide this poison was used in gas chambers

Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, small amounts of these chemicals get into your blood through your lungs. They travel to all the parts of your body and cause harm.

What do all these chemicals to my body?

As you might imagine, even small amounts of the poisonous chemicals in cigarettes can do bad things to your body. Here are some facts about what smoking cigarettes do to you.

 

  • Smoking makes you smell bad  
  • Gives you wrinkles
  •  Smokers 3 times more cavities than non smokers
  •   Smoking lowers your hormones
  •  When smokers catch a cold they are more likely than non smokers to have a cough that lasts a long time.
  •   They are also more likely to get Bronchial problems and pneumonia
  •   Teen smokers have smaller hearts and lungs than non teen smokers
  •   They also get sick more often than teens that don’t smoke

What happens to my lungs when I smoke?

Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, you kill some of the air sacs called Alveoli. These air sacs are where the oxygen that you breathe is transferred into your blood. These air sacs don’t grow back. This means that when you do things to weaken them, you have permantly destroyed parts of your lungs. This means that you won’t do as well in activities, where breathing is important like sports dancing or singing.

Smoking also paralysis, the cilia that line your lungs, the cilia are little hair like structures that move back and forth to sweep particles out of your lungs. When you smoke, the cilia can’t move and can’t do its job, so dust pollen and other things that you inhale, sit in your lungs and build up. Also there are lots of particles, in smoke that gets into your lungs. Since your cilia are paralysed because of the smoke, the particles sit in your lungs and form tar.

 

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the holocaust – lest we forget

i did not know there was so much hate

i could never have known what was to be our fate

my children ripped away from me

my husband gone all so far from me

it was also the sick and those that were special

at the hands of that horrid devil

i felt the furt i saw the pain of my family and friends who i look for in vain

himler,hitler they took it all from our homes throughtouot the war

striped rags on my back is all i own

as i stand here alown with fellow human beings

stripped of all my earthly feelings

my family gone my life to end at the hands of cruel and evil men

never must we forget a war that most of us regret.

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BY Jamie-Ann Richardson

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